Calculator Silver Lite vs Digits Basic Tape Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Calculator Silver Lite
This app offers a robust calculator experience with advanced features like printing and emailing calculation history, a backspace key for corrections, and customizable display options. It allows for easy copying and pasting of numbers to other applications and supports displaying calculations on external monitors.
- Print/email calculation history
- Backspace correction key
- Copy/paste numbers
- Customizable display and tape
- External monitor display
- Today View widget
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*Featured in What´s Hot on iTunes* *Featured in New & Noteworthy by Apple* The BEST Calculator! App for iPad, iPhone and iTouch — Just try it for free! Ever lost your train of thought half way through a calculation and thought how handy it would be to have a print out or e-mail of your work? Features: - Print out the calculation history or send by PDF. - Correct with a backspace key if you enter a wrong digit without having to redo all. - Email, PDF or Print the calculation history. - PDF the Tape and access previous in the Documents Folder. - Exchange Documents in iTunes or open in iBooks, Email, etc. - Rename and share PDF documents. - Copy and Paste numbers to other Apps, by tapping on the display. - Change number display to Fixed, Scientific, etc., by tapping on the display. - Customize fixed digits, fonts, colors and sizes. - Customize the Tape font, size and color. - Customize backgrounds with in-App purchase. - An audible sound confirms if you have pressed a button, which can be easily disabled by touching the speaker. - Show calculations on an Apple TV or an external monitor with a cable. To allow this turn on Apple TV and select Mirroring. - Previous calculation is repeated when the equal sign is pressed. - Grand Total calculated. - Numbers in Memory may be logged to the Tape. - A visible and audible error when trying to divide by zero or take the square root of a negative number. - Numbers are shown in local format, depending on your Region Formats, i.e. comma used in Europe.
Digits Basic Tape Calculator
This app offers a calculator with spreadsheet-like editing capabilities, allowing users to easily correct and manage calculations. It features a polished interface and supports various devices. Additional features can be unlocked through in-app purchases.
- Editable calculation tape
- Spreadsheet-like editing
- Polished user interface
- Multi-tape management (in-app purchase)
- Sharing and printing (in-app purchase)
- Dark Mode support
- VoiceOver support
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We're human. We're busy. We make mistakes. So we designed a calculator for humans, from the ground up. Digits combines the editability of a spreadsheet with the simplicity of a calculator. Digits is a calculator a human can love. Digits Basic is an ad-sponsored version of Digits that has basic functionality. Tap the shopping bag in Digits Basic to add powerful features such as: editing, sharing, multi-tape management, printing and more. --- Digits Basic highlights: • An updated, polished user interface with buttery-smooth interaction. • Multi-threaded processing for desktop-level performance. • Built from the ground up with support for 64-bit and the latest iOS/hardware. • Designed to maximize resolution on devices like the iPhone 11. • Split View support on iPad for side-by-side work. • Expanded in-app help. • Accessibility VoiceOver support. • Support for Dark Mode. With In-App upgrades: • Detailed color and sound customization. • Editing, flagging, commenting, sharing, printing and more. • Tape Document sharing (via Messages, Mail, Dropbox and other popular file sharing services). • Spreadsheet-like editing with calculator-level simplicity. • Fully correctable and editable line-by-line tape history. • Fluidly enter values, label and email or print. • Double-check and correct entries with ease. • Export Tape Documents in a variety of formats. Button functions: Delete row, backspace, clear all, clear, memory, memory plus, memory minus, plus or minus, tape browser, percent, export, settings, shop, tips, help, edit, insert, total, copy, use, comment, flag, sin, cos, tan, square, cube, exponent, square root, cube root, root, inverse, Euler, Pi, add, subtract, multiply, divide, total.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Calculator Silver Lite at 85% against Digits Basic Tape Calculator's 40%. Digits Basic Tape Calculator's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and rating (4.5 vs 4.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Calculator Silver Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Digits Basic Tape Calculator sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Digits Basic Tape Calculator holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 44 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Calculator Silver Lite's written reviews are positive against 40% of Digits Basic Tape Calculator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Calculator Silver Lite ships an update every 2 months, Digits Basic Tape Calculator every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Calculator Silver Lite | Digits Basic Tape Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (10 ratings) | 4.5 (44 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.3% of reviews — better | 40.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 44 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hannes Sverrisson | Shift |
Customer experience
Calculator Silver Lite
Digits Basic Tape Calculator
In-app purchases
Calculator Silver Lite
- Enable Backgrounds$0.99
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Support Development$4.99
Digits Basic Tape Calculator
- Pro Design$0.99
- Pro Export and Sharing$0.99
- Pro Features$1.99
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